Quotes about Microsoft

It sounds like Microsoft is going to take steps to make this easy for developers to actually implement.

Jeff Snyder

If Microsoft were to provide excellent installation, setup, and support for Linux, Microsoft would probably be very successful in the Linux market. But Microsoft probably will not do anything to support Linux.

Brian Livingston

I think it's totally insignificant to AOL. At this point, Microsoft has more to gain from this discussion than AOL does.

Arthur Newman

We are at the point where all the obvious things we tell Microsoft to do, they already do it.

Dan Kaminsky

Microsoft is really making a major play for the enterprise.

Richard Ptak

Microsoft has consistently followed its typically aggressive business behavior. Microsoft firmly believes there aren't anti-competitive effects [to their business practices], notwithstanding its hardball tactics.

Hillard Sterling

One of the things that Microsoft plays on is that consumers will benefit from this. If you're the only player in town then how good is that for the consumers?

Dana Gardner

BizTalk is XML-based, and while it is aimed at boosting the Microsoft platform and BackOffice, at its core XML is platform-independent and Microsoft certainly realizes that.

Warren Wilson

Only companies that have demonstrated high levels of customer service, proved their experience and attained advanced certification receive the designation of Microsoft Certified Partner.

Allison Watson

It is a very interesting development from a content point of view, because Microsoft is embedding a lot of the features directly into the OS instead of plastering them on top.

Guy Creese

We were hopeful there wouldn't be a format war. With Microsoft and Intel announcing support and with Chinese manufacturers allowing low cost players in the market, we know there will be a format war. We're trying to broker an olive branch here.

Maureen Weber

The revenue growth is not, I think, where Microsoft wants it to be.

Chris Alliegro

Microsoft has always said it's not in the business of litigating. We continue to believe Microsoft hasn't done anything to violate the law.

Rick Rule

Everything is going to be an online download experience. The biggest development in Microsoft is the active interface between your television and your internet.

Mark Hovanec

Microsoft faces a huge bottleneck problem. Microsoft has to change. There's no doubt about it. But who knows how far and how deep this will go.

Michael Cusumano

He was saying, 'Look what I did at Microsoft and look what I can do for you.

Jeff Johnson

Clearly Microsoft needs to add this piece - mobile access is a huge part of their new .Net initiative.

Craig Mathias

The idea of fiddling with Microsoft applications will evaporate.

Paul Saffo

This won't stop the Microsoft encroachment.

Stacey Quandt

Where there's competition, Microsoft prices aggressively and competitively; where there isn't, Microsoft doesn't.

Chris Letocq

Microsoft totally wants to own this market, this is a huge market.

James Preissler

The corporate PC market is increasingly mature, and Microsoft has a dominant share of that market, so they are running out of room to grow faster than the market.

Drew Brosseau

They're doing stuff now that Microsoft says they hope they can do in a couple years.

Nate Elliott

This is a significant loss to Microsoft, both in their reputation as well as the damage that it could cause them with their future product getting out into the wrong hands.

Simon Perry

This shows that Microsoft is serious about getting into telephony, ... This will lead to a big expansion of the market.

Ted Jackson

It's a problem that there's no known solution from Microsoft.

Alfred Huger

In the last couple of years, the revenue has become more important, the business has become larger. It's a significant growth opportunity for Microsoft.

Joanne Bradford

It's from avionics to aircraft to Microsoft. It also includes educational counseling for the military, the scheduling and delivery of classes, the whole works.

Jimmy Katsekis

We're making a huge effort to use industry standards. Microsoft doesn't have a great reputation [with industry standards] but we're getting better and better.

Jonas Persson

There will be more than one language out there. Plus, it's Microsoft. They'll be a player.

John Loiacono

Customers can download these patches just as they would a Microsoft patch.

Peter Pawlak

This is an echo of what we've seen before. It is a classic case of Microsoft working to establish itself as a de facto standard, now in digital media.

Phil Leigh

We strongly disagree with the judge's findings. Microsoft products have greatly benefited consumers.

Gary Locke

Microsoft has had success on the appellate level, Jackson has had less success. If the case goes to the liability phase, we're likely to go through the appeals process, which is going to be lengthy.

Greg Maffei

I can say that there has not been any additional capital invested on our end to get this (deal with Microsoft) running.

Craig Russell

This month, Microsoft is only issuing one patch and we already know it's not one of ours. That means that our overdue list will keep getting longer and longer.

Steve Manzuik

We did have the Microsoft SMS package here, years and years ago, and it was full of bugs and caused us a lot of grief, but we still looked at it.

Grant Griffiths

What Microsoft will do is accelerate the implementation curve for secure authentication.

John Oltsik

The response by Microsoft is essentially a meaningless response.

Joe Klein

Microsoft would do whatever they can to keep AT&T from going to AOL.

Drake Johnstone

We support Microsoft and expect Microsoft ultimately will prevail in these legal proceedings.

Gary Locke

The relationship is fairly good. Everybody seems to be winning. Microsoft is trying to attract businesses to volume licensing, as a lot of companies out there aren't license-compliant.

Noel Unwin

Everybody has to play catch up with Microsoft.

Peter Mcgregor

Just because things are going to get harder for the government doesn't mean they get any easier for Microsoft. This process itself is inflicting significant damage.

Adam Cohen

What's interesting is that Microsoft is now more of a leverage story.

Brendan Barnicle

Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth, but you ain't seen nothing yet.

Larry Ellison

Microsoft essentially is acknowledging is that the hosted model makes sense to some customers, and it isn't something that they can ignore.

Chris Alliegro

At the margin, we remain a holder of Microsoft shares, not an aggressive buyer.

Dean Stanley

We've got 80 percent of them saying don't know much about it, but 50 percent of those saying if Microsoft had disk-based backup product, they would use it. You can see the depth of branding and marketing muscle Microsoft can drag along with their product.

Brian Babineau

They all own GE, they all own Microsoft, and you're starting to see AOL show up. You're seeing a lot of common names.

Donald Dion

Microsoft will smooth over the rough edges there with lots of little offers like this.

Steve Kleynhans

Microsoft has to figure out a way to use the network to enhance their software. They can link to dictionary.com or thesaurus.com instead of bundling those features into Microsoft Word.

Eric Schmitt

You're sending us to go talk to the PC manufacturers and the PC manufacturers say go talk to Microsoft. How are we supposed to get our refund?

Eric Raymond

They seem to be opening a crack for Microsoft on the desktop, a crack that Microsoft could well take advantage of.

Eric Arnum

Unified messaging is really an old architecture. It has been around since the mid-'90s. There is a shift happening, because Microsoft is getting into the business. Still, you can't really say that things will change overnight.

Elizabeth Herrell

Microsoft has a vested interest in making business more secure. How else would business be secure if not for [the input of experts]?

Fred Gibson